| LIQUIDATE | Get rid of running mate losing head |
| UPSEYDUTCH | Punch mate, losing head over plugging angry companion, heavily once |
| ELOPEMENT | Work in a cause: that's the aim of running mates |
| GRETNAGREEN | Historical goal of running mates? |
| ORNATE | Decorated old Royal Navy mate losing millions |
| GILAMONSTER | Lizard runs after mate, losing ground |
| ESTATE | Best mate losing leads in property |
| CHINOS | Mate losing a bone making strides (6) |
| TERMINATE | Close call at home with mates losing protection (9) |
| STREAM | A rivulet of running water, thus a drift of same-aged schoolchildren, flow of thought, river of data, surge of words, tide of people or trickle of money (6) |
| GATHERING | Assembly or crowd of people; or, a series of puckers made in fabric by pulling tight the thread in a line of running stitches (9) |
| FLIGHT | The act of running away with set of stairs (6) |
| UPKEEP | Cost of running to the top of the tower |
| FIXX | Author of "The Complete Book of Running" |
| PUMA | Mountain lion that's also the name of a brand of running shoes |
| WARDSISTER | War Department has a habit of running part of the hospital (4,6) |
| WOKING | Where prince said he could be seen running (with no hint of running) (6) |
| ALLWEATHER | Type of running track a centre of excellence with showers, for example (3-7) |
| SPRINTING | The competitive athletic sport of running distances of 400 metres or less (9) |
| STREAMS | Word for small rivulets of running water, thus for continuous flows of digital data, money, tears, traffic, verbal abuse or anything else (7) |
